gemmeous

English

Etymology

From Latin gemmeus. See gem.

Adjective

gemmeous (comparative more gemmeous, superlative most gemmeous)

1. (archaic) Resembling or relating to gems.
   • 1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:

     They were not the Europeans alone, who were ſtruck with its [the honeysucker’s] great beauty; the natives of America, to whom it was ſo familiar, were affected with its gemmeous appearance, and beſtowed on it titles expreſſive of its reſplendent colors.

Derived terms

• gemmeous dragonet

 

References

• “gemmeous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.